The beautiful tree
a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves
by James Tooley
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"While researching private schools in India, Tooley wandered into the slums of Hyderbad's Old City. He found it overflowing with small, parent-funded schools and set out to discover if they could help achieve universal education. This is the story of Tooley's travels in developing countries and of the children, parents, teachers and entrepreneurs who taught him that the poor are not waiting for educational handouts. They are building their own schools and learning to save themselves"--From publisher description.
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Education, Poor, People with social disabilities, Travel, Education, social aspects, Education, india, Education, china, Education, africaPeople
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2013, Cato Institute
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2013, Cato Institute
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The author is a professor of education policy, and was given a contract to study private schools in India. He wasn't looking forward to studying what he thought would be expensive schools for the elite. However, while walking the back streets of an Indian city, he saw a cardboard sign advertising "St. Mary's School" with an arrow. He followed it and discovered a whole world of small homegrown schools for the poorest kids which were started by local people fed up with the poor quality of public schools. Apparently about a quarter of all Indian children go to these schools, while the government doesn't even acknowledge their existence. He later discovered the same phenomenon in poor countries around the world.
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